After 30 years as a private eye, actor and ex-detective Bo Dietl still handles the most bizarre cases Rao’s Restaurant sits deep in the heart of Harlem – a hangout known for wealthy businessmen, mob bosses, actors and movie directors. Old stomping ground, too, for Richard “Bo” Dietl, the street-smart, urbane private investigator who’s internationally renowned for his investigations. It’s early 1990 and he’s sitting in session with Jordan…

Marcus Lemonis was merely an infant in his native Lebanon as the nation was enduring the ravages of war in 1974, but when a bomb exploded in Nashville, Tennessee on Christmas Day 2020, the TV personality (CNBC’s The Profit and now Streets of Dreams), entrepreneur, advocate and philanthropist sprang into action. What started as a $250,000 reward to anyone who provided information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator, was con…

New Year, New Congress, New Administration: Risk and Opportunities. The word “tariffs” was often mentioned during last year’s race for the White House, and it increasingly appears to be the lynchpin of President Donald Trump’s economic plan. Less than a week before his inauguration as 47th President of the United States, Trump announced plans to create a new agency called the External Revenue Service to collect the tariffs and other…

President Trump’s talk of new tariffs not only has foreign countries’ leaders from China to Canada and Mexico rattled, but the issue is keeping the world's executives up at night.  President Trump’s talk of new tariffs not only has foreign countries’ leaders from China to Canada and Mexico rattled, but the issue is keeping the world's executives up at night. CEOs globally rank intensified trade wars as the top geopolitical risk to their…

There’s still plenty of time for President Trump and his economic policy team to inspire American consumers, but for now, it’s not happening. Key Takeaways Consumers’ assessments of current business conditions: • 18.4% of consumers said business conditions were “good,” down from 21.0% in December. • 15.4% said business conditions were “bad,” unchanged from December. Consumers’ appraisals of the labor market plunged in January. • 33.0% of co…